Крымская колонна

The Crimean Column, made of a single monolith of Ural "Siberian" marble, stands on the territory of the G.I. Turner Children's Orthopedic Institute Clinic, located in the rebuilt buildings of the former Almshouse. The monument, designed according to the canons of the Roman-Doric order and installed on a three-step granite stylobate, was erected in 1777 in front of the Palace Reserve Court building according to the design of V.I. Neelov. The column is dedicated to the Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji and, likely, to the victory in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774, and Catherine II, Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich, and Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna oversaw its transportation from the Catherine Palace.